moreluck,
FOX news and its am radio affiliates (CLEARCHANNEL) are doing there best to say "nothing to see here, dont believe the hype", yet the situation at the 6 reactor plant in Japan gets worse every hour.
The head of TEMPCO has said that water underground in concrete passageways has levels of over 1000 millisieverts an hour that are away from the reactor. Now, Chenobyl, at its peak of disaster released only 350 millisieverts an hour and contaminated over 120 thousand kilometers. You as a human can only be exposed in a year to 100 millisieverts and considered safe.
Symptom benchmarks
Symptoms of acute radiation (within one day):[19]
- 0 – 0.25 Sv (0 – 250 mSv): None
- 0.25 – 1 Sv (250 – 1000 mSv): Some people feel nausea and loss of appetite; bone marrow, lymph nodes, spleen damaged.
- 1 – 3 Sv (1000 – 3000 mSv): Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured.
- 3 – 6 Sv (3000 – 6000 mSv): Severe nausea, loss of appetite; hemorrhaging, infection, diarrhea, peeling of skin, sterility; death if untreated.
- 6 – 10 Sv (6000 – 10000 mSv): Above symptoms plus central nervous system impairment; death expected.
- Above 10 Sv (10000 mSv): Incapacitation and death.
In the begining, the Japanese were saying to the world that radiation levels were small and no threat to the public existed. Each day since, its been one step closer to a castastrophy.
Those interested parties in the United States (nuclear lobbyists) have decended upon the republican party and its mouthpiece FOX News Corp to downplay the risks to americans even though a legitimate risk to americans is begining to show.
The ocean is contaminated with levels way higher than the Japanese are reporting.
What is it going to take Moreluck for you to believe that this reactor accident is something that you should take seriously?? What do you need to experience personally before you are willing to accept that there is a danger to americans?
The problem with radiation and our experts, is that they really do not know what will happen or how it happens when radioactive particles (isotopes) enter our atmosphere and travel thousands of miles. It is an invisible enemy to humans.
The only marker that will show what is real is TIME. 20 years from now when cancers to humans scar the landscape like they did after all the above ground nuclear bomb tests in america in the 40"s and 50"s will you probably believe there was a risk.
Splitting a hair on risk by talk radio and Fox news is a danger to YOU directly.
Radioactive rain from japan is appearing over the United States and that rain goes into our crops, fields , cows, milk, chickens, eggs and the like. If you eat these things over time, you will be exposed to radiation in levels that will directly enter you body and stay there.
If a castastrophic explosion happens at reactor 4, massive radioactive fallout will enter the atmosphere and arrive on the west coast in a couple of days hitting your home first at you are on the coast.
Once reactor 4 blows up, there will be NO WAY to reach or manage the other 5 reactors on site and those too will blow up releasing lethal levels of radiation never seen by mankind.
Not all the reactors have the same kind of radiation in them. Some are plutonium, some contain cobalt and others are storage.
I am not saying to panic, or go out and buy a radiation suit, but I am saying to do some research, learn, understand and dont rely on some am radio blowhard to tell you everything is fine.
The TEMPCO head has asked for official help today from the french as he knows he has lost control of the degredation of the nuclear plant.
This should scare you.
Peace.